Search This Blog

Blue Ray DVD Player

Blue Ray DVD Player

By Imran
A blue ray DVD player
is one that plays blue ray discs. In actuality there are many terms
for Blue Ray technology for it is an optical disk storage standard that
was originally designed by the Sony Company in order to supersede the
standard DVD format used then.

Its majority of uses are for actually running a Playstation 3 games format, as well as high-definition video
and also it will also perform data storage with a 50GB dimension. This
disc has the same physical dimensions though as any standard DVD and
CDs.

Sony coined the name Blu-ray disc and the name was derived from the
blue-violet colored laser that is utilized to read the disc.

Technically, a standard DVD uses a 650 nanometer red laser, but
Blu-ray uses a somewhat shorter wavelength, it is actually a 405 nm
blue-violet laser, and thus it allows for close to six times more data storage than on a standard DVD. Thus a blue ray DVD player can play for longer than the standard DVD player.

A while back there were format wars that battled over high-definition
optical discs, and thus Blu-ray was competing with the HD DVD format
which Toshiba which was supporting, however the HD DVDs had to cede in
February of 2008, and it was then that the format war was ended.

The Blu-ray disc was and still is developed by the Blu-ray Disc
Association, which is actually a group that represents a tremendous
amount of different makers of consumer electronics, motion pictures, as
well as computer hardware.

For instance, as of January 2009, there are more than 890 Blu-ray
disc titles that have been made available in Australia, while there are
720 in Japan. There are also 140 in the UK, and 1,500 made available in
the United States.

Meanwhile, though it is definitely not compulsory, the Blu-ray Disc
Association has made a recommendation that all Blu-ray dsc drives should
actually be made capable of reading standard DVDs and CDs so that
backward compatibility can be reached.

Thus, the majority of them can do so. This has created an interesting phenomenon, to say the least. Thus most blue ray DVD player can play the standard DVDs as well as blue ray DVDs.
There is a blue ray DVD player made by many companies now, such as
Sony, Panasonic, Corel, Betamax, Sylvania, Samsung, Pioneer, Philips, Marantz and Sharp, though there may be others out there.

They all use the Blu-ray spelling though so if you are going to look
for one on the Internet, you’d best use that spelling, although there
are many “re-directs” happening if you use another spelling.

Either way, it appears that purchasing an existing Blu-ray technology
blue ray DVD player may or may not be the best idea while each tries to
outdo the other with “newer and better” technology. It’s actually
still a gamble as to where the technology is heading.